Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred, these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making process of this great Nation.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.

Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future.

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil.

America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

Social media are fundamental to communicate and understand what happens in the world. It's a point of view and an immediate commentary.

As long as you're running away from a part of yourself, you can't see immortality.

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will.

The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet

This is what Donald Trump understands. This is the trade deficit. We run a trade deficit of close to $800 billion a year.